Arab Spring

CAIRO (Reuters) - Abdel Fattah al-Sisi needs no election campaign. The general-turned-president's crackdown on challengers and dissent, which critics say surpasses that before Egypt's 2011 uprising, has already ensured he will win a second term.<p>Central Cairo is nonetheless adorned with banners and …

Tunisia is where the "Arab Spring" began. Today, seven years on, despite some setbacks, it is the only country in the Arab world where those uprisings have given way to a peaceful transition - to a functioning democracy. Our guest, Safwan Masri, says that's no coincidence. Masri, who's in charge of …

There’s more for tourists in Morocco than package holidays thanks to a host of new galleries and cultural events<p>A particularly vivid sunset in Marrakesh is said to have inspired such fervour in Franklin D Roosevelt that he turned to Winston Churchill and said: ‘I feel like a sultan; you may kiss my …

One of this week’s milestones in the history of technology, the launch of Twitter, sheds light on the way we live now—deriving social status and enjoyment by playing games and gaining popularity on the Internet, including creating and spreading fake news.<p>A dozen years ago this week, the first tweet …

Eric Reguly is the European columnist for The Globe and Mail and is based in Rome. Since 2007, when he moved to Europe, he has primarily covered economic and financial stories, ranging from the euro zone crisis and the bank bailouts to the rise and fall of Russia's oligarchs and the merger of Fiat …

<b>Moscow (CNN) —</b> In the last four years, Russia has annexed Crimea from Ukraine, meddled in a US election and helped turn the tide of the Syrian war in Bashar al-Assad's favor.<p>Now it's in a major diplomatic row with the UK, which blames Moscow for the poisoning of a former spy, his daughter, and a …

WASHINGTON - China's economy is likely to surpass the United States in less than two decades while Asia will overtake North America and Europe combined in global power by 2030, a U.S. intelligence report said on Monday.<p>"Meanwhile, the economies of Europe, Japan, and Russia are likely to continue …

<i>Robert Rotberg is the founding director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict, former senior fellow, CIGI, and president emeritus, World Peace Foundation.</i><p>The cradle of human civilization developed in northeastern Africa largely because of abundant supplies of flowing water and …

The conflict has reportedly claimed the lives of as many as half a million people, caused the worst refugee crisis since WWII, and destroyed so many cities and so much infrastructure that the cost to rebuild is an estimated $200 billion.<p>What started as street protests turned into a civil war, and …